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Germany: nearly 1.1 million migrants arrived last year

Germany: nearly 1.1 million migrants arrived last year

BERLIN (AP) — Nearly 1.1 million people were registered as asylum-seekers in Germany last year, more than 400,000 of them from Syria, the government said Wednesday.

The Interior Ministry said that 1,091,894 people in total were registered between January and December. Syrians were by far the biggest single group, accounting for 428,468 people.

They were followed by Afghans, 154,046 of whom were registered, and 121,662 Iraqis.

Germany has seen more refugees and other migrants arrive than any other European country. In the early part of 2015, that included large numbers of people from Balkan countries who have very little chance of winning asylum. The fourth- and fifth-biggest groups of asylum-seekers last year came from Albania and Kosovo.

The influx was slower in December than in previous months, with 127,320 people arriving — down from 206,101 in November. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that was largely because of stormy weather in the Mediterranean Sea.

The total tally of registered asylum-seekers includes an as-yet undetermined number of people who were registered twice at different locations or continued to Scandinavia or elsewhere, de Maiziere said. He added that the number of people who actually sought asylum will only become clear as applications come in — “it is under 1 million, but how far under 1 million can only be said in the course of 2016.”

Actual asylum applications have lagged behind arrivals. The government said that 476,649 people formally applied last year — the highest number on record and more than double the previous year’s figure of 202,834.

“We think the level of refugees and asylum-seekers who have come to Germany is too high, and are working so that it isn’t repeated on this scale in 2016,” de Maiziere said.

There’s widespread agreement on that in Germany, but disagreement on how to go about it.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has emphasized the importance of diplomacy and getting other European countries to share the burden, but her conservative allies in Bavaria advocate setting a cap on the number of refugees Germany can take. Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer has suggested a figure of 200,000.

“International efforts haven’t yet won through,” Seehofer said Wednesday. “We must wait and see what happens in this field in January and February … and then evaluate what we need in addition.”

Seehofer said that if arrivals continue at the pace they did in December, “we would have this year … more refugees than in the whole of 2015.”

Merkel played down the differences as she arrived at an Alpine retreat of Seehofer’s Christian Social Union, insisting that her party and his have much more in common than they have divisions.

She said it was very important both to “achieve an appreciable reduction of the refugees” — by tackling the reasons people are fleeing and sending home rejected asylum-seekers — and preserve freedom of movement within the European Union.

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Germany and France dug their own grave on this issue years ago looking for cheap almost slave labor. Now they are living with consequences of stupid policies and uncontrolled progressive social agendas. We need not participate in their stupidity.

Europe, for the most part, has enjoyed a Monday Morning quarterback seat as it applies to immigration. Now? Well now they’ve waves of immigrants seeking asylum and all the ‘goodies’ that come with it. I know from interviews from the EU that the ‘people’ of the EU are fed up with the huge tsunami of immigrants that have ‘invaded’ their towns. They’ve already had enough and they’re only in year 2 of this influx of immigrants.

It’s not that I don’t have pity for what the EU is going through. That is to say, I have pity for the people of the EU who are now as tied to their governments wishy washy hopey dreamy ideals as we ourselves are. We’ve had influx after influx and wave after wave of immigrants flow across unsecured boarders to our South for as long as I’ve been alive. (60’s). We’ve endured the rhetoric and talking heads/politico’s who assure us every 10 years or so as they back slap each other over yet another amnesty act that this will ‘fix’ the problem. And yet…. and yet…..

It’s true America is a nation of immigrants. That does not mean we give carte blanch to every Ahmed, Kalil and Hurkid a pass into our nation! It also doesn’t mean we give ever Jose, Maria and Juan a pass either. We have to fix our process first before one more immigrant asylum seeking goodie wanting loafer comes across our own boarders. Not one more! Until our process is fixed and a firm actual wall is in place, no amount of rhetoric out of DC or from our talking heads in DC will ever convince me we aren’t headed for all out destruction and civil unrest upon this very issue. We simply can’t keep the pace up and add to it tens of thousands of middle eastern refugee seekers as well. They are no different in the low education, low skilled labors we already are filled to the brim with.

Add to this nice pot of goop the fact that the refugee’s who wish to come here from the middle east are even less vetted or able to be vetted due to the poor to non existent personal files of each refugee. A few dollops of ‘Jihad’ and radicalized extremists and you’ve got a recipe for one nasty pot of molten unrest; the likes that haven’t been seen since our own Civil War the set brother against brother and family against family. Don’t be fooled, it is marching at a rapid pace toward that very end. Mark my words. The dye is cast.

If we refuse to learn from the out of control mismanagement of the muslim migration in Europe because of political correctness we will become Islamasized in another 10 years like Europe has.
Middle Eastern countries should do more to house these refugees from Syria, Africa, Somalia, Lybia to name a few. It will drain our finances eventualy if we keep allowing this uncheked muslim migration as well as from south of the border. One of the main reasons for the fall of the Roman empire was due to massive migration from neighboring countries which eventualy drained them financialy.